For us humans, everyone loves to play music and feel the physical and mental pleasure that music brings us. However, the latest research by researchers has found that animals are just like us. From fish to monkeys, they also like to play some music and enjoy life in time.

According to a study to be published in the journal Cognition, by observing the musical preferences of primates such as woolly monkeys in Central and South America, researchers found that non-human primates Seems to prefer relaxing lullabies to fast-paced dance music.

Josh McDermott, a researcher at the Perceptual Science Organization at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his colleague Mark Hauser of Harvard University, placed the horn near the feeding branch. When a little monkey plops down on a branch, the researchers will let the speakers play music.

In separate experiments, scientists played a Russian folk lullaby played on a flute, Mozart's Concerto in B major K458, a lullaby played by German musicians and Alec Empeler ’s powerful tune “Nobody Runs Away from Being Active.”

In repeated experiments, the monkeys gathered on the branch next to the speaker playing the slowest song. These tunes are usually lullabies. McDermott said animals' musical preferences may be related to some of the stimulating effects of music. He explained: "In urgent events in the natural environment, such as fights and storms, there are usually rapid sounds. Monkeys and other animals have thus developed a vocal evolutionary response to intense events. The rapid sound signals the situation. Not good."

Listening to Mozart makes fish healthier

Experiments studying the physical and mental health of carp have shown that listening to music can make them healthier.

Sofronis Pabotsogoro, a professor at the Department of Applied Hydrobiology at the School of Agriculture in Athens, and his research team raised carp in a circulating water system in constant darkness and natural light. Then, classical music was played underwater to some of the carp.

They found that dark environments hinder carp growth, but when carp listened to Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nacht Musik" for half an hour or more, even carp with limited light could grow beyond normal rates. grow.

The researchers also determined that listening to classical music increased carp liver fatty acid levels and reduced levels of stress-related neurotransmitters. They plan to publish their research results in the January 2007 issue of the journal Hydroponic Engineering. This study suggests that music could one day be used to improve the welfare of fish in intensive fish farms.